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Supply-side sustainability

Author: T F H Allen; Joseph A Tainter; T W Hoekstra
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2003.
Series: Complexity in ecological systems series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: T F H Allen; Joseph A Tainter; T W Hoekstra
ISBN: 023110586X 9780231105866 0231105878 9780231105873
OCLC Number: 50096845
Description: xv, 459 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Nature of the Problem --
A New Global System --
Economics, Society, and Ecology --
Comprehending Sustainability --
Manage Systems, Not Outputs --
Manage Contexts --
Supply What Systems Need --
Let the Ecological System Subsidize Management --
Understand Problem Solving --
Sustainability in a Social Context --
Paying for Sustainability --
Maintaining the Political Context --
The Ecology of Sustainability --
Driven Between Disciplines by Technology --
Prediction in Large Systems --
Standard Practice for Different Reasons --
Social and Biogeophysical Integration --
Complexity, Problem Solving, and Social Sustainability --
Complexity and Social Sustainability: Framework --
Monitoring, Predicting, and Problem Solving --
Complexity and Problem Solving --
Producing Resources --
Resources, Intensification, and Sustainability --
Producing Knowledge --
Summary and Implications for Sustainability --
Complexity and Social Sustainability: Experience --
Collapse of the Western Roman Empire --
Understanding Roman Unsustainability --
The Early Byzantine Recovery --
Collapse of the Abbasid Caliphate --
Development of Modern Europe --
Consequences of European Wars --
Implications for Sustainability --
Some Characteristics of Sustainability --
A Hierarchical Approach to Ecological Sustainability --
The Criteria for Observation and Modeling --
The Organism --
Sustaining the Umwelt --
Habits and Familiar Settings --
Rare and Endangered Umwelts --
Stress and Unmet Umwelts --
The Human Umwelt and Sustainability of Other Species.
Series Title: Complexity in ecological systems series.
Responsibility: T.F.H. Allen, Joseph A. Tainter, Thomas W. Hoekstra.

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